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With a push for 24-hour public service at the county’s new sheriff’s office, Lancaster County Council approved five new positions for the facility during its April 22 meeting.

County Administrator Steve Willis presented a request from Sheriff Barry Faile to hire four new records clerical positions to assist with 24-hour, 7-day-a-week service at the new sheriff’s office, as well as a new custodial position.

University of North Carolina archeologist Dr. Stephen Davis pointed to a screen showing a satellite image of a housing development under construction in the Nation Ford area of Fort Mill.

At the center, superimposed on a grid of curving gray roads and the empty dirt lots of a budding golf community, is a red circle marking the location of a nearly 300-year-old Catawba Indian settlement.

The Indian Land man charged in a fatal wreck last year on Harrisburg Road will spend five years in prison.

William Justin Rigsbee, 28, received the five-year sentence during a General Sessions court hearing April 15 at the Lancaster County Courthouse. Circuit Court Judge J. Ernest Kinard Jr. presided.

On Jan. 8, 2012, Rigsbee was driving a Chevrolet truck east on Harrisburg Road when he lost control and ran off the right side of the road, according to a media release from the 6th Circuit Solicitor’s Office.

The Rev. James “Jim” White stared at the list of typed names he was holding in his hands inside the historic Lancaster County Courthouse on Sunday, April 21.

The 30th anniversary program for HOPE (Helping Other People Effectively) in Lancaster was six pages long. One of those pages was filled with names such as HOPE organizers James Bradley, T. Thomas, Brown Wylie and Lester Robinson.

A Lancaster man was arrested on a host of charges last month after an early-morning assault left a woman bleeding.

Danielle Lamar Peay, 25, 1248 Old Greensbriar Drive, was arrested March 31 on charges of first-degree burglary, two counts of criminal domestic violence, returning to premises, alighting from a moving vehicle, possession of a firearm by a person convicted of a violent crime, unlawful carrying of a pistol, resisting arrest and littering, according to Lancaster Municipal Court records.

A simple traffic stop ended in the arrest of a Lancaster man on multiple fraud warrants from North Carolina.

Kevin Richard Bourne, 31, 1056 Old Landsford Road, was arrested March 27 by Lancaster police officers on four counts of obtaining a controlled substance by fraud or forgery, according to the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office online inmate database.

The arrest happened just after 10:30 p.m. that day when a Lancaster police officer saw a black and blue mo-ped traveling south on South Market Street.